E2R - Implementing complex SAP modules for real... warts and all!

Speaker: Paul Hopkins

Abstract

Presenter:- Graham Parker - SAP BASIS Team Leader

Between March 2005 and October 2005, the University ran an intense business/technical project called "Enquiries to Registration" which re-engineered the whole process of recruiting postgraduate students across the University. The project implemented satandard SAP modules of Portal, Customer Relationship Management, Workflow, Business Warehouse, Document Scanning/Management, a major development of the Campus Management module and a host of other developments.

To support this bewildering array of new modules, it was necessary to design, acquire, implement and configure more than 25 SUN /Intel servers running Solaris, Linux and Windows 2003. Certain servers were clustered in to High Availability combinations, several new landscapes (Development, Test/QA and Production) were created. This is now one of the most complex technical solutions in any HE Institution.

Graham Parker is the team leader of the SAP BASIS team in Newcastle University and was intimately involved in all stages of the design, implementation, configuration and on-going settle down of this environment. The presentation will focus primarily on the technical aspects of the new SAP technical environment and provide a useful insight in to the "real-world" difficulties of trying to implement complex technical solutions in a very short space of time.

Prior to the SRG meeting, attendees might be interested in visiting www.ncl.ac.uk/iss/e2r/ to see some "movies" which show aspects of the "end-user" view of the E2R system. Note that there are no technical specifications available on this web-page!